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Month: November 2013

I recently observed, and slightly participated in a conversation, that, in my opinion, has the potential to be transformative for Black folks. For those of you not aware, a Black Haitian man was murdered in the Dominican Republic, in plain sight. In response this violence, someone likened the Dominican and Haitian history to the Bloods […]

I love economics because it is the study of and postulations of the possibilities of us! Economics is also a perspective. It is a particular perspective on behaviors. It is a perspective about the world. It is someone’s perspective on everything. Rarely does one ask whose perspective the system is built for, and whose perspective […]

You are here. It is done. We have arrived. We have placed these flowers to remind you, to remind us that what seems like the past, the forgotten, is only a different way of looking at the present, and the future. It is all one, all connected. There is only transformation. That is why we […]

I have been analyzing Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions assessment[1] and its potential it to elucidate the social, economic, and spiritual behavior (spiritual in this context is a reference to the conscious and unconscious being) of capitalist culture. According to Hofstede, culture is “the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes one group or category from another (Hofstede, […]